69th Pennsylvania Irish Volunteer Infantry, Backer Zouaves Companies I & K, 1861-1862 - Artist Proof

69th Pennsylvania Irish Volunteer Infantry, Backer Zouaves Companies I & K, 1861-1862 - Artist ProofArtist Proof 50 Signed Numbered Overall: 15. 375" x 20" Image: 11. 375" x 14. 5" $100. 00 The 69th regiment was recruited mainly from men in the Philadelphia environs, and most of its recruits were Irishmen described as "robust and of fine physique." In fact more than 220 of its members' surnames began with "Mc" or nearly a fifth of the entire regiment. The regiment's first colonel, Joshua T. Owen, had commanded the 24th Pennsylvania as a three months

bareheaded

Overall: 24" x 30

Valley Forge

Burnside reported his troops only had enough supplies to last until December 3rd

the marquis de Lafayette and Baron Steuben and accompanied by the cheers of his military family and of Continental troops

Battle of Germantown

Confederate Sergeant

2nd Regiment of Continental Artillery

they formed up and marched out of the town

Summer 1780

The glorious task for which we first flew to arms being thus accomplished

"The Hessian" Small oil on panel of a Grenadier of the Fusilier Regiment Von Lossberg